Zoe Kazan Quotes
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.